Upstairs from the Tricycle Café, and across from the Long Gallery, Nolan Art used to be part of a whaling warehouse. These days it’s an art gallery with a difference, showcasing contemporary Tasmanian art alongside boutique art tuition.
Whether you’re a local or a visitor, you can find something to suit you here. A conversation about art, a lovely drawing to take home or an exhibition opening once a month. Our artists include photographers, printers, painters, jewellers and sculptors.
We arrange private tuition as well as rather painty art parties. During the holidays we hold art workshops for children and full day sessions for adults in everything from abstraction to introductory oil painting.
Nolan Art is a practical place where you can commission a painting or have your partner pose for your friends for her birthday party.
To book a class, a workshop or purchase Tasmanian art, you can browse through our online shop or drop in to visit us.
Nolan Art offers a variety of enjoyable, enriching art experiences to complement the stay of conference and business visitors to Tasmania.
These can be provided:
- Centrally in our loft classroom in the historic Salamanca Art Centre.
- As part of the program at the conference venue.
- Around Hobart’s waterfront or at selected sites in southern Tasmania
The School has provided quality art experiences and tuition to visitors and residents in southern Tasmania since 1999.
Frequently asked questions.
Is Nolan Art an art gallery or art school?
Nolan Art is an art gallery with a difference that showcases and sells contemporary Tasmanian art to customers from around the world as well as boutique art tuition, classes and experiences to students of all ages and skill levels.
Is Nolan Art easy to find?
Nolan Art is on the first floor of the Salamanca Art Centre just across from the Long Gallery in the middle of the Salamanca Place gallery and tourist area. Parking is available in Salamanca Place or in the Salamanca Square parking station.
Is Nolan Art a user-friendly place?
Nolan Art is a user-friendly place. Visitors are welcomed to an unpretentious, friendly space where they can enjoy an atelier atmosphere that combines the making and marketing of art. It is a practical place where you can commission a painting or have your partner pose for your friends for her birthday party. Whether you are a local or a visitor, you can find something to suit you here: a conversation about art, a lovely drawing to take home, an exhibition opening once a month or an interesting art workshop.
On a more serious note, Nolan Art is rigorous in our duty of care for our students, contractual relationships with artists and interaction with our customers. We follow the NAVA Code of Practice.
Is Nolan Art an accessible venue, open to all?
Nolan Art welcomes customers and students of all ages including those with disabilities or special needs. Our gallery and classroom are wheelchair accessible and level access is available through the lift from the Salamanca Art Centre courtyard. Parking is available nearby.
Those students who need extra support during activities must provide their own as we don’t attract government funding.
Can the artwork or classes at Nolan Art be purchased online?
Nolan Art has a contemporary internet site and business portal at www.nolanart.com.au. The site allows customers to browse and book an art class or purchase an artwork. The site also incorporates an app which allows potential patrons to virtually place selected artwork onto their own walls. Customers can also make purchases or book a class by phone or instore.
What type of art does Nolan Art show?
Nolan Art Gallery showcases distinctive contemporary art from Tasmanian painters, printmakers, jewelers and sculptors. Our profile of artists is concentrated on Tasmanian practitioners at different stages of their careers.
Nolan Art also offers interesting vintage jewellery and collectibles from around the world to its client base.
What purchasing options exist for an artwork I would like to buy?
Nolan Art offers purchasing options for artwork to suit most budgets. We accept most major credit cards, including America Express. Nolan Art also has an inhouse layby program and participates in the Tasmanian Government’s Collect Art program. If you buy with structured payments, we store your art purchase safely until it is fully paid and ready for collection or delivery.
How can I get an artwork home from Tasmania?
Nolan can freight the work we sell to the homes of interstate and overseas buyers. We carefully wrap or crate your art and freight it to your home safely (with full insurance) on a cost-recovery basis. We pack and post works to 1 metre square and arrange for specialist couriers to ship larger works to your door. Should you need extra large overseas freight, we can direct you and your work to the appropriate courier.
Is Nolan Art Hobart’s best art school?
We think Nolan Art is Hobart’s best art school. It is Hobart’s largest and most established private art school. It has provided quality art experiences and tuition to a clientele of adults and school-age students in Southern Tasmania since 1999 and has operated in the Salamanca Art Centre since 2011.
What types of art classes and experiences does Nolan Art provide?
Nolan Art provides a wide variety of quality art education experiences for those of all ages and skill levels. These include:
- Regular terms of art classes for school-age children and adults.
- Regular kids’ school holiday and adult workshops, held between normal school terms.
- Private tuition
- Arty parties for children and adults.
- Training and art experience events for conferences, community, school and commercial organisations from Tasmania and interstate.
Who can join an art class?
Nolan Art provides art education, enjoyment, and training services to children, young adults, and more mature people from all walks of life and of all ability levels. Kids classes are regularly streamed by age. Adult classes have regular beginner’s options. Thereafter students join more advanced classes. At Nolan Art our tutors support individual skill development and facilitate the development of unique styles.
What is the minimum age for children in class?
Children need to be at least six years old to join a regular term class. Younger age children may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Are kids’ classes streamed?
Children learn best in age-appropriate groups and as they gain artistic experience, the available classes are loosely streamed for Junior, Primary, Middle School, and High School and College students.
Are discounts available for classes?
Nolan Art offers a range of discounts to make art affordable for families and others. A15% discount is generally available if two children from the same family are booked into classes at the same time. Also, discounts are available for buying two, three or four terms of classes for one person at the same time.
What will my child learn in the classes?
Nolan Art aims to develop the unique creative abilities of each student regardless of age through a combination of a broad curriculum. Students are given the opportunity to experience many art and craft mediums, from drawing and painting to ceramics and mask making. In addition to customary two-dimensional art experiences, students are encouraged to further their line drawings into wire sculptures or their portrait painting into sculpted heads. Other benefits from this approach are enhanced hand eye coordination, the ability to persevere with a task and increased self-reliance.
Are your tutors skilled?
Betty Nolan and Nolan Art’s tutoring team teach our classes, provide private tuition and run the arty parties. Generally, they are practicing artists with tertiary art qualifications and skilled at teaching. All our tutors have a current Working With Vulnerable People Tasmanian Government certification card.
Can you accommodate students with a disability or special needs?
Students with a disability or special needs are welcome in Nolan Art’s classes and workshops. If parents or students inform us of special needs or medical conditions, Betty Nolan and the tutoring team can recommend preferred classes and programs. If needed, private tuition can be arranged. Our classroom is wheelchair accessible and can accommodate disability scooters and other mobility aids. Our duty of care processes cover everyone in our classes and focus on personal safety.
Is there a chance for students to exhibit their work.
As art practice is a public exercise, Nolan Art showcases the achievement of our students in an annual exhibition of their work in the Salamanca Art Centre. Numerous students and their families and friends attend to celebrate the year’s work with the artists and their tutors.
Are Nolan Art classes suitable for beginners?
Nolan Art welcomes students of all skill levels. Some classes are designed specifically for beginners, while other are structured to accommodate beginners and students with more advanced skills.
Does Nolan Art offer private tuition?
Nolan Art offers private tuition designed specifically for the individual student. If you are shy about joining a class because your skills are rusty (or you don’t have any yet), your tutor will make a course of study just for you across two hours. You may be someone who is so busy that 2 hours art making each week is the breath of air you need to cope with your busy life. Nolan Art can put you in the hands of an artist/tutor who can open artistic doors for you.
Is there a kids’ school holiday activity program?
Nolan Art offers fun 2-hours art workshops during school holidays. Run by experience tutors, morning workshops are generally for younger kids, while older kid come to the afternoon sessions. Discounts are available when more than one workshop is booked at the same time.
Does Nolan Art offer adult workshops?
Nolan Art offers specialist full and part-day art workshops for adults in everything from drawing and abstraction to oil painting and watercolour. These are regularly scheduled during the school holidays and in the summer months.
Does Nolan Art offer arty parties for weddings, birthdays, special events or staff training?
We are experts at designing bespoke art experiences for hens’ nights, birthdays, special events, staff training or industry end of year parties. They can be gently saucy hens’ evenings painting a Scottish lair or being part of a Graeco-Roman toga event, to work group bonding through painting Cubist Portrait or composing Arcimboldo Surreal heads. We aim to give everyone a unique artwork to take home.
Does Nolan Art offer art experiences for conferences?
Nolan Art offers a variety of enjoyable, enriching art experiences to complement the stay of conference and business visitors to Tasmania. We can put together a themed activity that perfectly matches your delegate’s needs or contribute to the conference’s partner program. We can come to your venue or you can use ours.
Does Nolan Art offer work and classes to visitors and tourists?
We love visitors. Nolan Art regularly hosts mainland schools and special interest groups on art excursions. Hear a show and tell by one of our artists or learn to paint a portrait from life in oils for the first time. Email us to discuss your options.
